Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Community organizing, fair employment, living wage, service organization, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield on Labor Day and Unions, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 9/4/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

 

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170904.html

Announcements

Featured Guests

1. Lisa Maldonado,  Area Director, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)1021

1a. Maddy Hirschfield, Political Director, North Bay Labor Council

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1.  Lisa Maldonado and Maddy Hirschfield join us in the studio, where outside the North Bay Labor Council was finishing its annual Labor Day breakfast at the Carpenter’s Union in Santa Rosa to talk about the origins of Labor Day and their personal journeys into the firght for labor rights. Lisa shares how her immigrant parents were able to get an opening to joining the Middle Class through her dad’s struggle to join and to keep his union job. The 8-hour day and 40-hour week are common today because of workers orgainizing to bargain as a collective unit with the employers leveraging power with their wealth profiting off the labor. Lisa and Maddy also discuss the lobbying efforts around the bill being debated in the State Assembly AB1250,  Project Labor Agreements,and the the trhreat of the “Right To Work” movement to destroy union solidarity in the workplace.

About our Guest:  Lisa Maldonado is the Area Director at SEIU1021 a public employee union representing working people in the North Bay. SEIU1021 represents over 4500 city, county, non-profit and municipal workers and is a strong force for social justice for all working people, leading on campaigns to fight for increased wages, pensions and paid sick leave for all. Lisa is an attorney and has previously worked as Field Director of the ACLU of Northern California where she coordinated field campaigns on issues such as racial profiling, the death penalty, marriage equality and immigrant’s rights. She is also a member of the Board of Directors at KBBF.
Guest Link: SEIU1021 www.seiu1021.org/category/where-we-work/counties/sonoma-county/

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About our Guest:  Maddy Hirschfield  has lived and been active in public life in Sonoma County for more than thirty years. Maddy has a long record of involvement in progressive politics at the local level, having served as manager and/or consultant to dozens of Sonoma County candidate and ballot measure campaigns to protect the environment, health care services, worker rights, transportation and equal rights for all. In 2002 she was voted Sonoma County Democrat of the Year and is Former Chair of the Sonoma County Democratic Party. Over 12 years she served two state legislators as primary speech writer and District Director. She is currently the Political Director for the North Bay Labor Council of the AFL-CIO, that reprepresents over 70 unions.

Guest Links:

North Bay Labor Council
https://unionhall.aflcio.org/nblc

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com

We Were There performed by Bev Grant from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

Bread and Roses by Bobbie McGee from the Album: Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways  (2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Which Side are you On by Bev Grant  from the Album: We Were There: Songs of Women Labor History  (Human Condition Music)

Link to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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ecology, living wage, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Water, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz andguests Cami Courtright on Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock and Mara Ventura on North Bay Jobs with Justice, broadcast on 5/22/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170522.html

Announcements and Commentary

Featured Guests

1. Cami Courtright, Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock

2. Mariela (Mara) Ventura, Lead Organizer of North Bay Jobs with Justice

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1.   Cami Courtright shares her journey to active involvement with drawing attention to the Standing Rock movement to protect the water and Native American Tribal rights. She brings us up to date with the move to encourage banks and other investments tools to divest from the Dakota Access Pipe Line (DAPL) venture that is causing the environmental damage and potentially much more to major water sources.

About our First Guest:  Cami Courtright obtained her master’s degree in sociology with an emphasis in gender and cultural studies. In 2000 she volunteered at a Women’s Health Education Resource Center on a Native American reservation in South Dakota. She also has worked in a women’s shelter for abused women on a reservation and in the area of alcohol and drug addiction with various populations including working with Native American women. Cami currently works as a behaviorist for a progressive agency which serves the special needs population. Additionally she has written a humorous blog about her home town (Sebastopol) and recently was invited to be a columnist for Sonoma West Times

Guest Links: Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock: (to Facebook page)

The talk that Chase Iron Eyes gave at the SRJC last April 2017 (to YouTube page):

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2. Mara Ventura describes the mission of Jobs with Justice and how she rose to the leadership position in the local North Bay chapter. She updates us with recent achievements in the current Good Jobs and Zero Waste Campaign, including the signing of a Teamster Union Contract with the Ratto Group providing Recycle and Waste Services to Santa Rosa.

About our Second Guest: Mariela (Mara) Ventura hails equally from both coasts but has spent the last 10 years organizing on immigration, education, and worker’s rights in the Pacific Northwest. Born in Colombia and brought here as an infant, Mara is a proud queer immigrant and very actively involved in her community. Mara has her BA in Sociology and is deeply committed to social justice and grassroots direct-action organizing. As the lead organizer for North Bay Jobs with Justice, Mara spends the majority of her time helping build a bridge between issues the community is addressing and fights workers are having to win improvements in their workplaces/industries.

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Music Selections:

For Those Who Dream by Joanne Shandoah and Paul Orgega, from the album Songs of Native American Women  (Canyon Records)

We Were There by Bev Grant
from the album Songs of Women’s Labor History (Human Condition Music)

Link  to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Mothers Day origins and current motherhood in the USA, broadcast on 5/15/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Human Rights, living wage, women's rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Mothers Day origins and current motherhood in the USA, broadcast on 5/15/17, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA170515.html

Announcements and Commentary

Featuring Guest

1. Dr. Harriet Fraad, Psychothrerapist, Author,  Feminist

About our Guest:  Dr. Harriet Fraad, Ed.D, is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a founding member of the feminist movement and the journal Rethinking Marxism. For 40 years, she has been a radical committed to transforming US personal and political life. She writes regularly for Truthout, and journals such as Tikkun, and The Journal of Psychohistory. Her latest book written with Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick is Class Struggle on the Home Front (Palgrave 2009). She writes a blog called Economy and Society with Richard D. Wolff that appears on her website, harrietfraad.com, and the website of Richard Wolff, RDWolff.com. Her newest publication is an essay written with Tess Fraad-Wolff, Imagine Personal and Sexual Life Under Socialism which appears in the forthcoming book Imagine Socialism in the USA (Harper Collins, 2013).

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1.  Guest Dr. Harriet Fraad highlights some of the original ideas of Julia Ward Howe on Mother Day, as well as those of other women activists at the time. Dr. Fraad then talks about the current situation of mothers in the USA and the mixed messages of the worth of the mother by policy makers who make it difficult for mother’s to nurture their children with decreasing income and social resources.  The effect on men is also discussed.

Guest Links: www.harrietfraad.com

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Music Selections:

No Charge by Melba Montgomery, from the album Country Classics released in 1994 – 18 Country Classics (KTEL)

Julia Ward Howe Mothers Day Proclamation recited by Ghizela Rowe, from the album Mother’s Day No. 2 (Prime Music)

My Yiddisha Momme by Sophie Tucker, from the album Shalom Music of the Jewish People (Compendia)

Link  to Spinitron.com Playlist of the Women’s Spaces Show

 

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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ecology, Human Rights, Indigenous People, living wage, Oil, Santa Rosa, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Cynthia Quinn, Bonny Petty, Dr. Loi Medvin, and Rev. Margaret Flick on Standing Rock Water Protectors, broadcast on 11/21/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA161121.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Cynthia Quinn, a member of the sovereign Yurok Reservation

2. Bonnie Petty, Leader iin North Bay Jobs with Justice/Living Wage Coalition, Communications Vice President of the Santa Rosa Democratic Club

3. Dr. Loi Medvin, Licensed Psychologist in trauma tranformation, Co-producer, For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline on Nov.6th

4.  Rev. Margaret Flick, Unity Minister, Santa Rosa Unity

Announcements

Guest  1.  Cynthia Quinn describes how her grandmother kept the Yurok traditions alive, and she in turn for her daughter, and her daughter awoke her to the urgency of the situation in Standing Rock and their need to visit the scene of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).  Cynthia’s grandmother’s teachings came alive in that community of Water Protectors that greeted them at Standing Rock.

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2.  Bonnie Petty shares how those fighting for a living working wage felt the need to show solidarity and joined the demonstration supporting Standing Rock in downtown Santa Rosa on November 11, 2016.

Guest Linkz: northbayjobswithjustice.org

http://democlub.org/

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3.  Dr. Loi Medvin reports on the For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit supporting the Water Protectors facing off the Dakota Access Pipeline that occured o Nov.6th.  Over $30,000 was raised at the benefit at the Sebastopol Grange.

Guest Link: Past EventLinks: For All Our Relations Standing Rock Benefit on November 6th,

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4.  Rev. Margaret Flick leads us into centering ourselves as we deal with our national ordeal.

Guest Link: https://unityofsantarosa.com/

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Music Selections: 

By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel (CD) http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Vesta Copestakes with the top news of 2016 reported in the Sonoma County Gazette, and guests Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver on their new play Serial Murderess at Main Stage West broadcast on 1/4/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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homeless women assistance, living wage, Self esteem, Sonoma County, women in business, women in theatre, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest  Vesta Copestakes with the top news of 2016 reported in the Sonoma County Gazette, and guests Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver on their new play Serial Murderess at Main Stage West broadcast on 1/4/16, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA160104.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Vesta Copestakes Publisher, Sonoma County Gazette

2. Amanda Moody, Poet, Playwright, Actress, Member of Main Stage West

3. Melissa “Missy” Weaver, Dramaturgist, Lighting & Stage Design, Member of Main Stage West

Announcements

Music Breaks:  By My Silence by Ellen Bukstel and Nick Annis http://ellenbukstel.com/music/

Guest 1.  Vesta Copestakes discusses the main news of 2015 concerning Sonoma County, which included homelessness and the lack of living wages.

Guest Link:

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Music Break:  There is No Business Like Show Business  performed by Ethel Merman

Guests 2. & 3.  Amanda Moody and Melissa “Missy” Weaver talk about choosing their careers in theater, how they dealt with self esteem, and their collaboration in producing a play, Amanda reads a part from their play Serial Murderess now being presented at Main Stage West in Sebastopol. through January 17th.

Guest Link: www.mainstagewest.com/plays/serial-murderess/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Amanda Carles of Northbay Jobs With Justice and Christi Camblor of Compassion Without Borders veterinary services, broadcast on 12/21/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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Community organizing, fair employment, living wage, Self esteem, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Amanda Carles of Northbay Jobs With Justice and Christi Camblor of Compassion Without Borders veterinary services,  broadcast on 12/21/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA151221.html

Featuring Guests:

1. Amanda Carles , Member, Advisory Board for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015

2. Christi Camblor, Veterinarian and Co-founder, Compassion Without Borders

Announcements

Music Breaks: Union Maid Judy Collins and Pete Seeger perform cover of Woody Guthrie’s  (on YouTube)

Guest 1.  Amanda Carles is an In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) care provider for her child and other medically challenged people of all ages but especially the elderly. She discusses the difficulties dealing with the Board of Supervisors holding the wages so low or raising them at the expense of losing the health benefits, while the Supervisors raised their own salaries to one of the highest in the state.

Guest Link: Northbay Jobs with Justice www.facebook.com/nbjwj
www.northbayjobswithjustice.org/

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Music Break:  When Somebody Loves Me – From Toy Story 2 soundtrack (on YouTube)

Guests 2. Christi Camblor talks about the chanllenges and joys of her veterinarian career with Sonoma County Humane Society and the  organization Compassion Without Border that she co-founded and which provides free and low cost care to animals.

Guest Links: http://cwob.org/

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Claudia Garate House and Omar Medina of SEIU 1021 for Sonoma County Public Employees, broadcast on 10/26/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

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fair employment, living wage, Self esteem, Sonoma County, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Radio Show on KBBF-FM 89.1 with host Elaine B. Holtz and guests Claudia Garate House and Omar Medina of SEIU 1021 for Sonoma County Public Employees,  broadcast on 10/26/15, has been uploaded to the web archives.

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA151026.html

Featuring Guests:

1. SEIU Sonoma County 1021  Officers Claudia Garate House, Secretary, and Omar Medina, Counties Industry Council Chair on County Employees on Conrtact upgrades needed before renewed.

2. Poetry by Elaine B. Holtz

Opening Music:  Please Peace by Linda Ferro

Linda Ferro performed Please Peace on Women’s Spaces Presents in  November 2009 and can be seen on video at
www.womensspaces.com/Pr/WSP091100.html

Announcements

Music Break:  
We Shall Not be Moved  performed by Mavis Staples (on YouTube)

Guests 1. Claudia House and Omar Median talk of the Strike School held to prepare the 2100 members if the County does not meet their demands of the upgrades to their COLA and Health Insurance for County employees represented by SEIU. These employees are half the County workforce and make the least amount, forcing some to seek pulbic assistance.

Guest Link:  Sign the Petition in Support at standupsonomacounty.org

http://www.seiu1021.org/2015/10/22/record-turnout-at-strike-school-for-sonoma-county-employees-as-contract-expires/

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Music Break:  Union Maid
From Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Concert (Clearwater Concert), Madison Square Garden, 5/3/09. Featuring Billy Bragg, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Dar Williams, New York City Labor Chorus. (on YouTube)

2. Elaine B. Holtz reads two of her poems.

Women’s Spaces TV Show filmed 7/26/13 with guests Maureen Purtill and Yamileth Velaswquez on A.L.M.A.S. for domestic and food service workers, has been added to the Archives

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living wage, unite women, women's rights, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces TV Show filmed  7/26/13 with guests Maureen Purtill and Yamileth Velaswquez on A.L.M.A.S. for domestic and food service workers, has been added to the Archives

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSshow/WS130726.html

To view the video click the link to the archive page above.

Maureen Purtill and Yamileth Velasquez on Women’s spaces TV show

Guest Links: www.gratondaylabor.org

The video of the show can also be seen as a Current Show of Women’s Spaces, www.womensspaces.com and will remain on the home page as a Recent Show for a couple of months.  The Archive page is the more permanent location.

See the Broadcast Calendar on our website for the schedule of Cable TV and Radio broadcasts of shows for the current month.  See our Radio page for schedule of internet streaming of the audio on KWTF.net and live Radio KBBF FM-89.1 shows.  Archived Radio Shows are available as well.

Please share your comments on this particular show by commenting to this blog post.  You can check the box below the comment area for follow-up comments to this blog post.   You can also from the top of the page select Follow for notifications of updates to the whole blog.

Current and Recent shows can be seen at www.womensspaces.com

All archived shows can be seen at: www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSshows

Women’s Spaces Weekly Radio Show with guests Janeen Murray on upcoming Invest Local Conference of 9/26/13 and Jill Stein, MD, 2012 Green Party US Presidential Candidate and head of the Green Shadow Cabinet on her calling to political action, broadcast 9/16/13 over KBBF 89.1 FM, has been added to the Radio Archives

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Jill Stein, living wage, peace activist, women in politics, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Weekly Radio Show with guests Janeen Murray on upcoming Invest Local Conference of 9/26/13 and  Jill Stein, MD, 2012 Green Party US Presidential Candidate and head of the Green Shadow Cabinet on her calling to political action, broadcast 9/16/13 over KBBF 89.1 FM, has been added to the Radio Archives

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSKBBF/WSA130916.html

To listen to the 60-minute recording click the link to the archive page above.

Listen to the interviews of guests and commentary

1.  Regular monthly guest Janeen Murray of Sonoma County GoLocal discusses our local economy and the upcoming Invest Local Conference to be held at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa on September 26, 2013.

Janeen Murray on Women’s Spaces

Guest Links: Invest Local Conference

http://sonomacounty.golocal.coop/

2.  Jill Stein, MD, 2012 Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, and head of the Green Shadow Cabinet, discusses her call to political action.
Guest Links:   www.jillstein.org
www.greenshadowcabinet.us

See the Broadcast Calendar on our website for the schedule of Radio broadcasts of shows for the current month.  See our Radio page for schedule of live Radio KBBF FM-89.1 shows and internet streaming of the audio portion of the TV shows on KWTF.net.  Archived Radio Shows are available as well.

Please share your comments on this particular show by commenting to this blog

Women’s Spaces Special Show filmed 8/17/2012 with Guests Jamie Mitchell and Sara Romero, Members of the Alvarado Street Bakery, a Worker-owned Cooperative, is a Current Show on Cable TV and on Radio in November and has been added to the Archives

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cooperative, living wage, women in business, Women's Spaces

Women’s Spaces Special Show filmed 8/17/2012 with Guests Jamie Mitchell and Sara Romero, Members of the Alvarado Street Bakery, a Worker-owned Cooperative, is a Current Show on Cable TV and on Radio in November and has been added to the Archives

http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSshow/WS120817.html

To view the video click the link to the archive page above.

Guest Links: www.alvaradostreetbakery.com

The video of the show can also be seen as a Featured Show of Women’s Spaces, www.womensspaces.com and will remain there for a month.  The Archive page is the more permanent location.

See the Broadcast Calendar on our website for the schedule of Cable TV and Radio broadcasts of shows for the current month.  See our Radio page for schedule of internet streaming on KWTF.net.

Please share your comments on this particular show by commenting to this blog post.  You can check the box below the comment area for follow-up comments to this blog post.   You can also from the top of the page select Follow for notifications of updates to the whole blog.

Recent shows can be seen at www.womensspaces.com

All archived shows can be seen at: www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSshows